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Plot Summary:
A Shaw Brothers Circus Drama about a Trapeze Girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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Cirque du Soleil: Toruk - The First Flight (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a natural catastrophe threatens to destroy the sacred Tree of Souls, Ralu and Entu, two Omaticaya boys on the brink of adulthood, fearlessly decide to take matters into their own hands. Upon learning that Toruk can help them save the Tree of Souls, they set out, together with their newfound friend Tsyal, on a quest high up in the Floating Mountains to find the mighty red and orange predator that rules the Pandoran sky. Prophecy is fulfilled when a pure soul rises among the clans to ride Toruk for the first time and save the Na’vi from a terrible fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
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The Acrobat Bunglers (1981)
Plot Summary:
Humble officials, friends Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias become the great attraction of the circus Bartolo, thanks to its incredible ability to make the public laugh. But success has a price: the opposition of the magician Assis Satan and the greed of the Baron, the owner of the circus. Together, the four friends will have to fight them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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The Elephant (2010)
Plot Summary:
(Russian with English subtitles) The show is under way in the circus arena. But there is agitation behind the curtain: the audience's darling, Bodhi the elephant has fallen ill. The next morning a trailer arrives to pick Bodhi up. But his sad ride with driver Zarezin and the sweet circus girl Bonnie turns into a wondrous journey full of unexpected twists and joyous encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min
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The Vengeful Beauty (1978)
Plot Summary:
Despite its stand-alone title, this mixture of martial arts and exploitation is a semi-sequel to Shaw Brothers's Flying Guillotine series. This time, the focus is Rong Qui-yan (Chen Ping), a kung fu student turned dutiful wife whose life falls apart when her husband is murdered by a squad of government operatives led by the duplicitous Jin Gang-Feng (Lo Lieh). Qui-yan is forced to go into hiding as she plots her revenge and finds allies in fellow fugitive Ma Seng (Tsui Siu Keung) and ex-lover Wang-jun (Yueh Hua). Meanwhile, Jin Gang-Feng sends out an array of killers to track them down. Complicating things further is the fact that Qui-yan is pregnant and struggling to keep her unborn child safe while fighting her way to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Sweet Is Revenge (1967)
Plot Summary:
Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng took to the hills and began robbing the rich to help the poor. His daring feats earned him the nickname of “The Masked Robber”. Trying to intercept a large sum of money to be turned over to public security chief Cheng Kuan-hsi, he is nearly caught. Partner Hsiao Chung is jubilant over his safe return. But in the government office, chief detective Ma Pu-yun frantically plots his arrest. Ma Chien-li, son of the chief detective, devises a clever trap set for Ma Pu-yun’s birthday party. Among the guests is Huang Tan-ping who is engaged to Doctor David Lee. Ma Chien-li proposes to her without knowing this.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: The Winter's Tale (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (East Enders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
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The Local Stigmatic (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
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Cirqo (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
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Clowning Around (1992)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Walking a Tightrope (1991)
Plot Summary:
Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tragic ending
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Fools (1970)
Plot Summary:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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My Dream Boat (1967)
Plot Summary:
The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Name Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be the other person to the father. Little do they know that their joke comes with consequenses that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, social, neurotic, crying, entertaining
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The Bordello (1971)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Alfred Weidenmann.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Yang Yang (2009)
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Yang-yang is a French-Chinese mix. She has never seen her French father. She does not speak a single French word. Her mum has re-married but she has been very lonely. She started working at the entertainment industry. The fact that she is a mix is a good selling point. The film depicts how Yang-yang dealt with her life, her relationships with men, with her mother and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min
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Mela (1980)
Plot Summary:
Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after getting married, things however change considerably. Govindan is an insignificant figure there and is frequently ignored by everyone else. The frustrated Sharada meets a stuntman Vijayan (Mammootty) and gets close to him much to the discomfort of Govindan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
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Heroes of Sung (1973)
Plot Summary:
Heroes of Sung stars one of the original kung-fu ladies of the silver screen Shih Szu playing swordswoman Meng Hung who must work with Fan Tien-fu, played by perennial Shaws bad guy Lo Lieh (although he's good in this) to find then protect the royal seals of the Sung Dynasty. If they should fail, the dynasty will fall. Shih's magnificent performance earned her the female hero role in the Shaws-Hammer Studio hit "Dracula" and the 7 Golden Vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min
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The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
Plot Summary:
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, controversial, independent film, weird
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In a Savage Land (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthropological, period drama
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The Great Wallendas (1978)
Plot Summary:
Made-for-TV movie, tells the true story of the Great Wallendas, a family of circus acrobats famous for their seven-person high wire pyramid act, that one night ended in tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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My Favorite Clown (1987)
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Sergei is a professional clown in the circus, and he knows how to make people happy. He is adopting the six-year old boy Vanka from a foster home. Sergei is a good man, who can provide unconditional love. But Sergei's wife suddenly separates from him, and Sergei is left alone with the tough decision to make.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, experimental, controversial
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Human Animals (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two men and one woman are the last people on Earth. They are reduced to savagery, mate with the woman, and they learn to survive on a deserted island.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mysterious, psychotronic, grindhouse, silent, minimal cast, weird, silent film
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Buried Cain (2014)
Plot Summary:
Buried Cain is a steamy southern gothic drama about two brothers, Christian and Cain, who have only two things in common - their love for their small town southern home and their love for the same woman - the girl they call 'Georgia'. Their country love gets more complicated as childhood friend Faith and newcomer Grace, all the way from Hollywood, are also thrown into the love triangle. They each must ask themselves-how far you would go and what you would do for love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, touching, suspense
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Hagbard and Signe (1967)
Plot Summary:
The mountain slopes of Iceland are shown to excellent advantage in the Scandinavian epic Hagbard and Signe. The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe (Gitte Haenning), daughter of his onetime enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible. The young prince escapes, but returns disguised as a woman to his beloved Signe. Thanks to a treacherous handmaiden, both lovers are imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged. Rather than undergo this final ignominy, Hagbard and Signe enter into a suicide pact. A Danish/ Swedish/ Icelandic coproduction, Hagbard and Signe was released throughout Scandinavia as Den Rode Kappe, Den Rodda Kappan and Rautha Skikkjan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: saga
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Coast of Skeletons (1965)
Plot Summary:
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Wet Gold (1984)
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Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson), who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that went down with millions in gold. Although Laura's boyfriend (Barnes), keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true. Laura takes Sampson to a library, where she finds an old newspaper article which matches up with the events described to her by him. After becoming a true believer, Laura convinces Barnes, Sampson and a dive shop owner, Keating, to search for the treasure. Together they set off from Key West in the Baker's boat, which Barnes is supposed to be looking after. Keating shows a liking for Laura, and because of this, Barnes begins to feel uncomfortable towards him. After spending some time in the water, their dreams become reality, but the discovery of gold begins to show a change in their personalities.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Savage Is Loose (1974)
Plot Summary:
A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexual, independent film, sexy
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Plot Summary:
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Plot Summary:
The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui manages to escape, and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, inspirational, fast paced, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, light